Journalism and justice in the Oklahoma City bombing trials / / Chad F. Nye.

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Superior document:Law and society : recent scholarship
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Place / Publishing House:El Paso : : LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC,, 2014.
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:Law and society (New York, N.Y.)
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Physical Description:1 online resource (280 pages).
Notes:Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oklahoma, 2011, issued under title: Fair Trial/Free Press issues in the Federal Criminal Trials of Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols.
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Table of Contents:
  • Background: two centuries of precedent
  • Attorney advocacy in the press
  • Cameras in the courts
  • The crime and the "creeps"
  • Sanctuary in the jungle
  • "Demonized" defendants
  • Solemnity and dignity
  • "We needed a body count"
  • A strip search of their psyches
  • The trial of Terry Nichols
  • Examining the issues
  • Conclusions.